EP1332620B1 - Method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on prior queries - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to television program recommenders, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on the queries that have been performed by a user on an electronic program guide.
- television viewers identified television programs of interest by analyzing printed television program guides.
- printed television program guides contained grids listing the available television programs by time and date, channel and title.
- EPGs electronic program guides
- EPGs Like printed television program guides, EPGs contain grids listing the available television programs by time and date, channel and title. Some EPGs, however, allow television viewers to sort or search the available television programs in accordance with personalized preferences. In addition, EPGs allow for on-screen presentation of the available television programs.
- EPGs allow viewers to identify desirable programs more efficiently than conventional printed guides, they suffer from a number of limitations, which if overcome, could further enhance the ability of viewers to identify desirable programs. For example, many viewers have a particular preference towards, or bias against, certain categories of programming, such as action-based programs or sports programming. Thus, the viewer preferences can be applied to the EPG to obtain a set of recommended programs that may be of interest to a particular viewer.
- the TivoTM system for example, commercially available from Tivo, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, allows viewers to rate shows using a "Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down" feature and thereby indicate programs that the viewer likes and dislikes, respectively. Thereafter, the TiVo receiver matches the recorded viewer preferences with received program data, such as an EPG, to make recommendations tailored to each viewer.
- program data such as an EPG
- WO 98/37696 discloses a broadcast data distribution system distributing directory and indexing information for the selection of viewing choices in broadcast and multicast networks with asymmetric uplink/downlink bandwidths.
- the system automatically constructs both a target profile for each target object (program) that is broadcast, as well as a "target profile interest summary" for each subscriber, which target profile interest summary describes the subscriber's interest level in various types of target objects.
- the system evaluates the target profiles against the subscriber's target profile interest summaries to generate a subscriber-customized rank ordered listing of target objects most likely to be of interest to each subscriber, so that the subscriber can select from among these potentially relevant target objects, which were automatically selected by this system from the plethora of target objects available on the data distribution system.
- US 6,005,597 discloses a method and apparatus for television program selection that monitors the viewing preferences of a viewer to create a dynamic viewer profile that is used to rate available programs. Based on the viewer profile, available programs are sorted and presented to the viewer in descending order of predicted interest.. This allows a viewer to quickly fmd the program of greatest interest to the viewer without having to tediously search through large numbers of available programs.
- Such tools for generating television program recommendations provide selections of programs that a viewer might like, based on their prior viewing history. Even with the aid of such program recommenders, however, it is still difficult for a viewer to identify programs of interest from among all the options.
- currently available tools that search the electronic program guide based on a user-defined query require several button clicks before the user can review the list of programs satisfying the query.
- a method and apparatus for generating television program recommendations based on the queries that have been performed by a user on an electronic program guide.
- the present invention adjusts a conventional program recommender score based on the previous searches that have been executed by the user.
- the conventional program recommender score for a given program is adjusted according to the degree of correlation between the attribute-value pairs that define the program and the attribute-value pairs that have previously been searched by the user.
- a historical search database is maintained to indicate the number of times each attribute-value pair appears in a user query. Each time a manual or automatic search is initiated by the user, the query is decomposed to identify the attribute-value pairs specified by the user.
- the historical search database captures the search activity of a user and provides additional information regarding the preferences of the user. Higher frequency counts for certain attribute-value pairs imply the user's preference for programs conforming to such criteria.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a television programming recommender 100 in accordance with the present invention.
- the television programming recommender 100 evaluates each of the programs in an electronic programming guide (EPG) 110 to identify programs of interest to a particular viewer.
- EPG electronic programming guide
- the set of recommended programs can be presented to the viewer, for example, using a set-top terminal/television 180 using well known on-screen presentation techniques.
- the television programming recommender 100 generates television program recommendations based on the queries that have been performed by a user on the electronic program guide 110.
- the program recommender score generated in accordance with conventional techniques is adjusted based on previous searches that have been executed by the user.
- the conventional program recommender score for a given program is adjusted according to the degree of correlation between the attributes of the program and the attributes that have previously been searched by the user.
- the television programming recommender 100 decomposes the query to identify the attribute-value pairs specified by the user.
- a historical search database 400 discussed below in conjunction with FIG. 4 , is maintained to indicate the number of times each attribute-value pair has appeared in a user query. Thus, the corresponding count value is incremented in the historical search database 400 for each attribute-value pair appearing in the decomposed query. In this manner, the historical search database 400 captures the user's search activity and thus provides additional information regarding the user's preferences. Higher frequency counts for certain attribute-value pairs imply the user's preference for programs conforming to such criteria.
- the television program recommender 100 may be embodied as any computing device, such as a personal computer or workstation, containing a processor 150, such as a central processing unit (CPU), and memory 160, such as RAM and ROM.
- the television programming recommender 100 may be embodied as any available television program recommender, such as the TivoTM system, commercially available from Tivo, Inc., of Sunnyvale, California, or the television program recommenders described in United States Patent US6,727,914 B1 , entitled “Method and Apparatus for Recommending Television Programming Using Decision Trees," and United States Patent US7,051,352 B1 , entitled “Adpative TV Program Recommender,”, or any combination thereof, as modified herein to carry out the features and functions of the present invention.
- the memory 160 of the television programming recommender 100 includes one or more viewer profile(s) 200, a program database 300, a historical search database 400 and a program recommendation process 500.
- the illustrative viewer profile 200 indicates a viewer's relative level of interest for each program attribute.
- the program database 300 records information for each program that is available in a given time interval.
- the historical search database 400 indicates the number of times each attribute-value pair has appeared in a user query.
- the program recommendation process 500 generates recommendation scores for each program in a particular time interval, taking into account previous queries that have been performed on the electronic program guide (EPG) 110 in accordance with the present invention.
- EPG electronic program guide
- FIG. 2 is a table illustrating an exemplary viewer profile 200.
- the viewer profile 200 may be associated with a specific user or a group of individuals, such as a household, as would be apparent to a person of ordinary skill in the art. It is noted further that the viewer profile 200 may be generated explicitly, based on responses to a survey, or implicitly, based on the set of shows that were watched (and/or not watched) by the viewer over a period of time, or a combination of the foregoing.
- the viewer profile 200 contains a plurality of records 205-213 each associated with a different program attribute.
- the viewer profile 200 provides a numerical representation in column 250, indicating the relative level of interest of the viewer in the corresponding attribute.
- a numerical scale between 1 (“hate") and 7 (“love") is utilized.
- the viewer profile 200 set forth in FIG. 2 has numerical representations indicating that the user particularly enjoys programming on the Sports channel, as well as late afternoon programming.
- the viewer profile 200 is illustrated using an explicit viewer profile, the viewer profile 200 may also be embodied using an implicit profile, or a combination of implicit and explicit profiles, as would be apparent to a person of ordinary skill in the art.
- a television program recommender 100 that employs both implicit and explicit profiles to obtain a combined program recommendation score, see, for example, WO-A-02/25938 , entitled “Method And Apparatus For Generating Recommendation Scores Using Implicit And Explicit Viewing Preferences,".
- the numerical representation in the viewer profile 200 includes an intensity scale such as: Number Description 1 Hates 2 Dislikes 3 Moderately negative 4 Neutral 5 Moderately positive 6 Likes 7 Loves
- FIG. 3 is a sample table from the program database 300 of FIG. 1 that records information for each program that is available in a given time interval.
- the data that appears in the program database 300 may be obtained, for example, from the electronic program guide 110.
- the program database 300 contains a plurality of records, such as records 305 through 320, each associated with a given program.
- the program database 300 indicates the date/time and channel associated with the program in fields 340 and 345, respectively.
- the title and genre for each program are identified in fields 350 and 355.
- Additional well-known attributes (not shown), such as actors, duration, and description of the program, can also be included in the program database 300.
- the program database 300 may also optionally record an indication of the recommendation score (R) assigned to each program by the television programming recommender 100 in field 370.
- the program database 300 may also optionally indicate in field 370 the adjusted recommendation score (A) assigned to each program by the television programming recommender 100 in accordance with the present invention.
- the numerical scores, as adjusted by the present invention can be displayed to the user in the electronic program guide with each program directly or mapped onto a color spectrum or another visual cue that permits the user to quickly locate programs of interest.
- the historical search database 400 indicates the number of times each attribute-value pair has appeared in a manual or automatic user query.
- the historical search database 400 is comprised of a plurality of records, such as records 405 through 415, each associated with a given attribute-value pair.
- the historical search database 400 indicates the corresponding number of times the attribute-value pair has appeared in a user query (frequency of usage).
- the television programming recommender 100 decomposes the query and increments the counter in the historical search database 400 for each attribute-value pair appearing in the decomposed query.
- the historical search database 400 optionally indicates a normalized frequency of usage term, N, in field 470.
- the normalized score, N, indicated in field 470 can be obtained by performing a linear mapping of the actual frequency of usage term to a value between zero and one for each of the various attribute-value pairs associated with an attribute.
- the normalization in the historical search database 400 includes a frequency of usage scale such as: Actual Value Normalized Value 0 0 0.2 (MAX VALUE) 0.2 0.4(MAX VALUE) 0.4 0.6(MAX VALUE) 0.6 0.8(MAX VALUE) 0.8 MAX VALUE 1.0
- the normalization in the historical search database 400 can be obtained by plotting a curve through the various frequency count values for each of the various attribute-value pairs associated with an attribute, in a known manner.
- FIG. 5 is a flow chart describing an exemplary program recommendation process 500 embodying principles of the present invention.
- the program recommendation process 500 initially obtains the electronic program guide (EPG) 110 during step 520. Thereafter, the program recommendation process 500 calculates the program recommendation score, R, during step 520 for each program in the time period of interest in a conventional manner (or obtains the program recommendation score, R, from a conventional recommender).
- EPG electronic program guide
- R program recommendation score
- the calculation performed during step 530 ensures that the adjustment to the conventional program recommendation score, R, does not exceed an exemplary value of 35%, i.e., a maximum of 135% of the conventional recommender score, R.
- the adjustment to the conventional program recommendation score assigned to a given program is obtained by summing the weighted normalized frequency of usage term, N, for each attribute-value pair associated with the program that has been previously searched by the user.
- the WEIGHT i contribution of each attribute within a television program may be established by the user, or empirically determined.
- the date/time attribute can be assigned a weight of 5%
- the genres attribute can be assigned a weight of 20%
- the channel attribute can be assigned a weight of 10%.
- the exemplary program recommendation process 500 also ensures during step 540 that the combined program recommendation score, C, does not exceed 100% (the maximum score).
- the program recommendation process 500 provides the combined program recommendation scores (C) for the programs in the time period of interest to the user during step 550, before program control terminates.
- the adjusted program recommendation score, A may be calculated during step 530 using a bonus scoring system, wherein a predefined or fixed bonus is determined, for example, based on the number of attribute-value pairs that define the program that have previously been searched by the user.
- a bonus can be determined based on the number of attribute-value pairs that match the current program with those in the historical search database 400. For example, if four attribute-value pairs in the historical search database 400 match attribute-value pairs of the current program, then a bonus of, e.g., 10% may be awarded to increase the conventional program recommender score, R, by 10%.
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